Team USA has showed off its speed and strength at the 2024 Paris Olympics.
The Americans fared well in the pool but dominated athletics.
The U.S. won by far the most medals in track and field with 34 overall, the most for the U.S. since winning 40 the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics. Team USA also has the most in each color with 14 golds, 11 silvers and nine bronze medals. No other country has more than 10 total track and field medals.
In a distant second are Great Britain and Kenya with 10 overall medals each, followed by Australia with seven and Jamaica with six.
Here’s every medal won by Team USA in the athletic events, broken down by what medal Americans grabbed:
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Team USA’s gold medals in track and field
Men’s shot put, Aug. 3: Ryan Crouser competed the Olympic three-peat with a gold medal in shot put after a throw of 75 feet, 1¾ inches. He’s the only shot put thrower to win three Olympic gold medals in the event.
Men’s 100 meters, Aug. 4: Noah Lyles became the fastest man in the world when he won gold in the men’s 100 in a wild photo finish. He beat Jamaica’s Kishane Thompson by five-thousandths of a second.
Women’s discus throw, Aug. 5: Valarie Allman won her second-straight gold medal in women’s discus with a throw of 69.50. She is the fourth woman ever to win two Olympic gold medals in discus and the third to do so in back-to-back Summer Games.
Men’s 1,500 meters, Aug. 6: Cole Hocker stunned the world when he took the gold medal in the men’s 1,500-meter race. He also broke the Olympic record with a time of 3:27.65.
Women’s 200 meters, Aug. 6: Gabby Thomas controlled the women’s 200-meter final and sprinted to a gold medal with a time of 21.83.
Men’s 400 meters, Aug. 7: Quincy Hall came from behind to win gold in the men’s 400-meter final. He claimed first place with a personal-best time of 43.40.
Women’s long jump, Aug. 8: Tara Davis-Woodhall leaped to a gold medal in women’s long jump by taking off 7.1 meters (or more than 23 feet) through the air.
Women’s 400-meter hurdles, Aug. 8: Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone continued her dominance in the women’s 400-meter hurdles when she posted another world record time at 50.37 to win gold. It’s the sixth time she lowered her own world record and she is the only woman to win the event in consecutive Olympic Games.
Men’s 110-meter hurdles, Aug. 8: Grant Holloway won a gold medal in the 110-meter hurdles with a time of 12.99 seconds, finishing his redemption after he got silver in the event at the 2021 Tokyo Olympics.
Women’s 4×100-meter replay, Aug. 9: The star-powered U.S. team featuring Gabby Thomas, Sha’Carri Richardson, Melissa Jefferson and Twanisha Terry cruised to first place in the women’s 4×100-meter relay, running a season-best 41.78.
Men’s 400-meter hurdles, Aug. 9: Rai Benjamin cleared all of the hurdles around the track to win Olympic gold in the men’s 400 hurdles. Benjamin ran a season-best 46.46 to win his first Olympic gold medal.
Men’s 4×400-meter relay, Aug. 10: The team of Rai Benjamin, Chris Bailey, Vernon Norwood and Bryce Deadmon won gold in the 4×400-meter relay to become the third straight U.S. squad to win the Olympic event.
Women’s 100-meter hurdles, Aug. 10:Masai Russell won a gold medal in the 100-meter hurdles by a hundredth of a second to capture her first career Olympic podium finish.
Women’s 4×400 relay, Aug. 10: Gabby Thomas, Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone Shamier Little and Alexis Holmes dominated the women’s 4×400 relay to easily win gold.
Team USA’s silver medals in track and field
Men’s shot put, Aug. 3: Joe Kovacs took the silver medal in shot put with a throw of 69 feet, 4¾ inches, finishing just behind fellow American Ryan Crouser.
4×400-meter mixed relay, Aug. 3: The team of Vernon Norwood, Shamier Little, Kaylyn Brown and Bryce Deadmon won silver in the mixed relay. The U.S. 4×400 mixed relay team broke the world record in the opening round.
Women’s 100 meters, Aug. 3: Sha’Carri Richardson got silver in the race for the world’s fastest woman. Julien Alfred of Saint Lucia won the race with a time of 10.72 seconds, while Richardson was second at 10.87.
Men’s pole vault, Aug. 5: Despite injuring himself, Sam Kendricks won the silver medal in the men’s pole vault. He finished behind Mondo Duplantis of Sweden, who set the pole vault world record.
Women’s hammer throw, Aug. 6: Annette Nneka Echikunwoke earned the silver medal in the women’s hammer throw when she threw a season-best 75.48 meters.
Women’s pole vault, Aug. 7: Katie Moon vaulted 15 feet, 11 inches in her final successful attempt to earn silver in the women’s pole vault event. Nina Kennedy of Australia took the gold medal with a jump of 16 feet, ¾ inches.
Men’s 3,000-meter steeplechase, Aug. 7: Kenneth Rooks shocked the men’s 3,000-meter steeplechase when he took silver in the event. He clocked a personal-best of 8:06.41 in the race.
Women’s 400-meter hurdles, Aug. 8: Anna Cockrell made it 1-2 for the U.S. when she came in second in the women’s 400-meter hurdles with a personal-best time of 51.87, finishing behind fellow American Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone.
Men’s 110-meter hurdles, Aug. 8: Daniel Roberts came in second place in the 110-meter hurdles, finishing a tenth of a second behind teammate Grant Holloway at 13.09.
Men’s 200 meters, Aug. 8: Kenny Bednarek captured silver in the men’s 200-meter final with a time of 19.62. Bednarek finished behind Botswana’s Letsile Tebogo, who ran a 19.46.
Men’s high jump, Aug. 10: Shelby McEwen took silver in the men’s high jump to get the first high jump medal for the U.S. since 2012.
Team USA’s bronze medals in track and field
Men’s 10,000 meters, Aug. 2: Distance runner Grant Fisher was the first American to win a medal in a track and field event at this year’s Summer Games. He won bronze in men’s 10,000 meters to get the first medal in the event for Team USA since Galen Rupp won silver at the 2012 London Olympics.
Women’s triple jump, Aug. 3: Jasmine Moore became the first American woman to ever win an Olympic medal in the triple jump with a bronze medal.
Women’d 100 meters, Aug. 3: Melissa Jefferson got bronze in the women’s 100m, finishing just behind fellow American Sha’Carri Richardson.
Men’s 100 meters, Aug. 4: Fred Kerley posted a time of 9.81 in the men’s 100m to get bronze. He joined gold medal winner Noah Lyles on the podium of the race.
Men’s 1,500 meters, Aug. 6: Yared Nuguse took bronze in the men’s 1,500-meter race, joining gold medalist Cole Hocker on the podium. He ran a personal best of 3:27.80.
Women’s 200 meters, Aug. 6: Brittany Brown got bronze in the women’s 200-meter final, which was won by fellow American Gabby Thomas. She had a time of 22.20 to get third.
Women’s long jump, Aug. 8: Jasmine Moore placed third in the women’s long jump with a distance of 6.96 meters to join fellow American Tara Davis-Woodhall on the podium.
Men’s 200 meters, Aug. 8: Noah Lyles fell short of the sprint double and finished in third place in the men’s 200-meter final behind Botswana’s Letsile Tebogo and American teammate Kenny Bednarek. After the race, Lyles revealed that he had COVID-19.
Men’s 5,000-meters, Aug. 10: Grant Fisher won the bronze medal in men’s 5,000-meter to pick up his second medal of the 2024 Paris Olympics after he earned bronze in the 10,000 meters.
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